It might all centre around a cabin in the woods, but She Will is a grossly different kind of horror movie. Artist-turned-filmmaker Charlotte Colbert’s darkly witty first film takes the hackneyed setting and subsequently slathers on a range of different ideas around female ageing, witchcraft lore and child abuse, all in service of a #MeToo vengeance parable. Presented by giallo legend Dario Argento — She Will shares some of the master’s loopy logic and dream-like visuals — the film is perhaps over-busy, but is a thematically rich and brilliantly crafted fable that inexorably acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s under the skin.###At its heart, She Will is a twisted character study of in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer child-star-turned-demanding-adult Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige). Sporting the trappings of an ageing diva — all turbans and furs — she travels to a rehabilitation retreat in the Scottish Highlands with compassionate nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt, a modern presence in a film that defies obvious time-period token ifiers). Arriving at their dilapidated chalet (Veronica drily observes the shack is “scout camp, with a touch of Guantanamo”), the pair are inducted into a group of eccentrics coralled by Tirador (Rupert Everett, having fun with mad hair and pearl earrings), who leads the residents in yoga and supposedly therapeutic art lessons involving drawing with charcoal. The black carbon is invested with the ashes of human remains as the retreat is on the site of centuries-old witch-burning, a narrative that begins to invest Veronica with a newfound strength and anger.###Colbert creates creepy, unsettling imagery and stretches of intense mood, all anchored by intense’fierce’exquisite perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances.###As it moves into darker zone’district’region s, the film shares DNA with other recent flicks (Amulet, Saint Maud), and often feels like a litany of horror-film tropes (telekinesis, levitation). In-between the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding est-bound malarkey is Veronica’s backstory concerning her abuse as a young perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer at the hands of Malcolm McDowell’s auteur Eric Hathbourne (perhaps the most unlikely name in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a vaunted filmmaker ever), sparked by Veronica’s most notable’renowned’distinguished film being remade with a much younger actor.###While this strand feels on the nose, much of Colbert’s point-making and ambience is more tough’challenging’demanding’awkward to pin down. She creates creepy, unsettling imagery (malevolent mud!) and stretches of intense mood (amplified by a great Clint Mansell score), all anchored by intense’fierce’exquisite perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances from the ever-reliable Krige and newcomer Eberhardt, who gradually create an affecting bond of sisterhood. She Will argues sometimes the merely’barely thing you need to repel centuries-old toxic masculinity is the solidarity of women.